Traditionally, Campaign Life Coalition reminds its supporters that they should vote for the local pro-life candidate for MPP regardless of party affiliation. If there is more than one pro-life candidate, voters could then look at other issues and choose among the pro-life candidates that best represents their overall views. Unfortunately, not many voters have that opportunity; there are few ridings in which there is more than one pro-life candidate.
It gets tricky when there are no pro-life candidates. If there is no pro-life candidate, pro-life voters generally discern for themselves what to do. In the June 7 Ontario provincial election they may: vote to defeat the pro-abortion incumbent, decline the ballot, spoil the ballot by writing on it that there is no pro-life candidate, or stay home.
Defeating the pro-abortion incumbent punishes representatives for failing in their primary duty to uphold good moral principles. Refusing your ballot signals that you do not want to compromise your conscience by supporting a candidate who does not share your views. Spoiling your ballot by explaining why sends a message to the parties’ scrutineers that their candidates lost votes because of their pro-abortion views.
The Kathleen Wynne government has pushed a radical anti-life and anti-family agenda upon the province for the past five years. As we report on page three, the record of the Liberal government is egregious. Replacing Wynne and her radical ideology at Queen’s Park gives, at the very least, the chance for Ontario to take a break from social engineering experiments. It punishes the government for ignoring parental rights in education, trying to inculcate an immoral sexual lifestyle and worldview among our children in elementary schools, and violating the free speech rights of pro-life Ontarians through the implementation of bubble zones that outlaw pro-life activity near abortuaries.
The case for Doug Ford’s PCs is twofold: they are not Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals and the leader has vowed to repeal the Ontario sex-ed curriculum and begin the process anew with real parental consultations.
Obviously, the NDP is not much of an alternative to the Liberals considering it has supported every attack on life and family promoted by the Wynne government.
In an ideal world, we would have more pro-life candidates and real choice among the parties. But in an ideal world, we wouldn’t have abortion in the first place. We encourage you to seriously consider your voting options and help defeat the Liberal government.
